Whose identity is highlighted in the text, and what does the text suggest about alienation and our contemporary reality? To that end, you must quote from the text at least two times (in correct MLA format) and explain the relationship between the text and the concepts of identity and alienation. What does the text suggest about the reality in which we find ourselves?

ENGLISH 112 FINAL EXAM SPRING 2021

For your Final Exam, you will write a brief essay about alienation and identity. You can choose to write about one of the following texts:
Danielle Evans’ “Happily Ever After”
Souvankham Thammavongsa’s “Mani Pedi”
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s “The Finkelstein 5”
Cynthia Arrieu-King’s first few pages of prose poems from The Betweens
Natalie Diaz’s “The First Water Is the Body”
Hanif Abdurraqib’s poems titled “How Can Black People Write About Flowers At a Time Like This” from his collection, A Fortune For Your Disaster

You need to use the following prompt for your essay, but you can respond to whichever part of the prompt you find most interesting:

Whose identity is highlighted in the text, and what does the text suggest about alienation and our contemporary reality? To that end, you must quote from the text at least two times (in correct MLA format) and explain the relationship between the text and the concepts of identity and alienation. What does the text suggest about the reality in which we find ourselves?

Length Requirement: At least three substantial paragraphs (one and a half pages double-spaced).

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